is a professional Go

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Biography

Yoda is a student of Takeo Ando. He has won 35 titles so far in his career, the seventh highest in Japan. He became a professional in 1980, and reached 9 dan in 1993. In 2006, he was the heart of the Japanese team in international tournaments, steering them to a win over Team Korea in the 7th

Nongshim Cup The Nongshim Cup is a Go tournament sponsored by Nongshim, an instant noodle food company of South Korea. Outline The Nongshim Cup is a gathering of the best players from South Korea, Japan, and China. The Nongshim Cup is sponsored by Nongshim ...

. In June 2017, Yoda scored his 1,100th win as a pro. He has 572 losses, two jigos, and two no-results. He is the 12th Nihon Ki-in player to reach 1,100 victories. At 51 years four months, he is the third youngest, and, at 37 years two months, the 4th quickest to do so.

Titles and runners-up

Ranks #8-t in the total number of titles in Japan.

Appearance in Fiction

The climactic go game played between the fictional players Fujiwara-no-Sai and Toya Meijin in the

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and

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

series

Hikaru no Go is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekl ...

was in fact a real 1997 game between Norimoto Yoda and

Rin Kaiho Rin Kaihō or Lin Haifeng (; born May 6, 1942) is a professional Taiwanese Go player who made his name in Japan. He is, along with Cho Chikun, Kobayashi Koichi, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki and Kato Masao, considered one of the 'Six Supers' ...

. Yoda played the winning white side attributed to Sai.

References

External links

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1966 births Japanese Go players Living people Sportspeople from Hokkaido People from Iwamizawa, Hokkaido People from Tokyo {{Japan-Go-bio-stub